Color-matching device



15; 15, 1925 6 R. E SLEIGHT COLOR MAI came DEVICE Filed May 13, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR:

TTORNEYS.

Dec, 15, 1925.

R. E. SLEIG HT COLOR MATCHING DEVICE Filed May 13. 1925 2 Sheets-Shoot 2 ATTORNEYS.

To all whom it m ag/ concern:

as upon the shade of color use By n novel color matchmg scheme and Patented ea. 15, 1925.-

norm E. sic-EIGHT, or rnmannnrnm, PENNSYLVANIA.

coron ua'rcnmo nnvrcn.

LppIication filed Kayla, 1925. Seriall'o. 29,893.

Be it known that I, ROLAND SLEIGH'r, a. citizen of the United States, resldingat Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia 6 and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Color-Matching Device, of

which the following is a specification. 1

My invention relates to a new and useful color matching device, particularly adapted 10 for matching various colors and shades of inks, ,pi 'ents, dyes or paints.

. In or ering or selecting an ink, pigment, dye, or paint, to reproduce a given color or shade, either in a print, lithograph, or otherwise, it has heretofore been a rather difficult, delidate, tedious and time consumingtask, accurately to match any particular.

shade of color. This is particularly true in matching inks or igments with a given shade of color, as ound for instance, in a yfinished picture, produced by printing, lithographing .or' any of the multi-color printing processes. Thisis particularly due to the fact that the colors or shades of various colors, as'they appear in a print or lithograph, are not always, or are usually 'not, of solid shade, but appear rather as intermediate shades of the particular color or shade, depending upon the strength of d theplate prmtedfrom, or the strength of the particular portion of the (plate, as well adjacent to said elongated aperture, with a series of various intermediate shades, of the particular shade 'shown around the first aperture in solid, representing intermediate shades of the same shade of color, in varying-strengths of the plate printed from.

I further'provide a small colored area in the solid shade of the particular leaf or page, along one of the free edges of the leaf, preferably the edge of the leaf opposits-the binding edge. This serves as a visible index to the particular shades and colors contained within the matching book.

For the purpose of illustrating my in vention, I haveshown in the'accompanying drawings forms thereof which are at present preferred by me, since they will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results. although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and 1 organization of these instrumentalities asherein shown and described.

Figure 1, represents a. plan view of one leaf or page of my novel color matching d'e vice, partly finished, and embodying my invention.

Figure 2, represents a plan View of the same page, shown in Figure 1, completed in including the'matching apertures.

Figure 3, represents a plan View of andevice,

. orprint soug t to be matched.

am enabled quickly and accurately to match an shade of color regardless of the interme iate shades of such shade of color, that ha pen to appear in the picture other leafof my novel color matching device, corresponding to' a different color.

Figure 4,represents a perspective view of my novel color matching book in the-open position. I

Figure '5, represeiits a perspective view similar to that shown inFigure 4, showing the manner in which the 'same is used.

I accomplish the above ends by providing 40 a novel color matching -devi'ce,which may .la'e asingleshee't or a matching book, com-' posed ,of aseries of leaves, each representing a successive color and shade of color, in the color scale. Each leaf-is provided with a ti suitable matching aperture, having an area 1 immediately surroundingoradj acent to said' aperture, coloredpreferabl by'some process I v ofprinting,'in the soli shade, "of the V particular-shade of color corresponding to. to that leaf or page. I-further'provide upon' the same sheet, a'secondmatchmg aperture,

. of' suitable shape amrsize,1;. mmm :a.

somewhat elongated opemng, and color jaxsel'ies of.dreasw1mmediate1y-surrounding or Referring to the drawings, inv which like reference characters indicate like parts, 1 designates a leaf or page of my novel color matching device'corresponding to a black colored 111k or pigment and designated for her or other-indicia; in this particular instance N o. 131.

' :By means of such numbers, the ink or pig- 5; 10 'eanreadilybe identified, thereby-aiding inQ;

ment corresponding to the particular leaf trade purposes by a; suitable catalogue num- I ordering suchink or color from the inan'usif.

fa'ctnrer." 2' designates the solid shade of shades of colors as well as various intermediate shades of each shade of color shown, I have resorted to a series of arbitrary cross-hatchings of various intensit es,

which for the purposes of description are as sumed to represent the colors or shades, and their various intermediate shades designated by the names of colors printed on the particular leaf, as well as by the arbitrary catalogue numbers as shown.

In producing these leaves, the sheet is printed in a form shown in Figure 1, with a solid area 2, and the intermediately shaded areas 3,6 inclusive, as well-as the solid index area 7, preferably printed at one time and from the same plate. Thereafter the openings 8 and 9 are, punched through, and the free edges 10 of the leaves are cut, in such a manner as to draw the color of. the areas 7, down over the edges of the leaves, so as also to produce a colored index edge 11, shown particularly in Figure 4.. This is done by what is commonly known in the art as bleeding. While in the figures of the drawings I have shown only four contiguous areas 3, 4:, 5 and 6 of the inter mediate shades of the particular shade or color, it is to be understood that, that-number may be varied, as desired, although it has been found that four intermediate shades of any shade, ordinarily 'gives ample variation, so as to permit the quick and accurate matching of the intermediate shades. as found on prints, pictures or lithographs. i

- In Figure 3 I have illustrated another leaf 12, of my novel color matching book, also havin the solidly shaded area 2, surrounding the aperture 8, and the four intermediate shades 3, 4, 5 and 6 along the elongated matching opening 9, as well as the solid colored index area 7. In this par ticularillustration I have represented a. shade of blue, which is also designated by a I particular catalogue number or other .indici'a 13.

The series of leaves corresponding to various shades of colors, such as theleaves 1, 12,

Hand 15, are then bound into suitable book form. By this means the free edges 10- of .the' leaveswill be in vertical alignment with each other, so as also to align'the exposed colored edges 11 of the index areas 7, as

.. shown particularly in Figure" 4'; 'By this means the book 16 can be. opened to any desired shade or color, quickly and without paging through many leaves or pages. Having found the page or leaf corresponding to, or closely approximating the shade of color desired, the picture, print or lithograph 17 is placed beneath the leaf or page in a manner shown in Figure 5, with a portion of the colored surface of said picture 17, which is to be matched, exposed to view through the opening 8. By this means the shade of color can be matched, if such shade appears in the picture solid. If the color. to be matched does not appear in the picture in solid, but appears as an intermediate shade, namely as a shade of color printed from a portion .of the plate which is less than full strength, then such intermediate colored area is-placed beneath the elongated matching opening. 9 where such area can be compared quickly at first sight, with anyone of the various intermediate shades of the particular shade of color, which intermediate. shades are so graded as to facilitate a quick comparison.

Since, from time to time, difl'erent new shades of color are produced and new shades of ink orpigments are placed on the market, it is desirable to arrange the various leaves,

such as 1, 12, 14; and 15, in a loose leaf folder such as 18, shown in Figures 4 and 5, instead of binding such leaves together in a permanent form. By this means a new leaf may be inserted into the book at any time, in its proper relative position with respect to the other shades already in the book, in case. such new shade of ink or pigment is produced. In order more readily to ada t m novel matching sheets to the loose lea fol er 18, I may punch a lurality of small openings 19 along the binding edge 20 thereof, of suitable size and suitably spaced, to receive the rings 21 of the loose leaf folder 18.

It will now be apparent that I have devised a novel and useful color matchin deunderstoo that such embodiment is suscepand reliable results, it is to be tible of modification in variousparticulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing any of itsadvantages; I -V thus described my invention, what I claim asJnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. a color matching device of the character stated, a sheet havingon one port-i0 thereofa solid color, and on another pc tion thereof a series of-intermediate shades of said solid color, adapted for comparison with a" given colored surface of a desired shade of ink printed from a plate of le$ than full strength, an edge of said sheet having a colored index area thereon.

2. In a device of the character stated, a sheet having a matched' aperture there- Lhrough, a colored area on said sheet of a desired shade, adjacent to said a rture, and a colored index area on said s eet of the same shade adjacent to an edge of said sheet.

3. In a device of the character stated, a book composed of outer covers, a plurality of leaves or pages, a matching aperture through each of said leaves, a colored area of a desired color and shade adjacent to said aperture; and a colored'indcxed area of the same color and shade adjacent to the free edges of said pages.

4. In a device of the character stated, a flexible sheet, a solid matching aperture nherethrough, a solid colored area of any particular color and shade adjacent to said aperture, an intermediate matching aperture. through said sheet, and a plurality of graded intermediate shade areas adjacent to said aperture eachof an intermediate shade of the color of the solid shade on said sheet.

5. In a device of the character stated, a book composed of outer covers, a plurality of leaves, a colored area on said leaves of a particular shade or color in solid, a solid matching aperture through each of sa-idv leaves, an intermediate matching aperture through said leaves and a plurality of intermediate shade areas adjacent to said aperture, each of an intermediate shade of said particular solid shade.

6. In a device of the character stated, a book composed of outer covers, a plurality of leaves, a colored area on each of said leaves of a particular shade in solid, a solid matching aperture through each of said leaves, a plurality of intermediate shade areas, an intermediate matching aperture through said leaf, and an index edge of said leaf.

' ROLAND E; SLEIGH'I.

'45 area of said solid shade adjacent to a free 

